Neural stimulation as a treatment for addiction

Currently know some friends’ families with kids suffering harder addictions. I still wouldn’t destroy their sense of individuality by taping their eyelids open.

I see it as, holy crap why are kids doing fentanyl? But I was a kid once, and hope they grow up with some sense of self-respect and responsibility.

I have a bias, in that it seems when amortized, humans keep staying alive despite the newest drug.

I think there is another way of getting rid of addictions: I heard of multiple people that quit smoking form one day to another which usually has a very low chance of success (~3%). One thing they had in common: They pursued their addiction and one day got so horribly sick that something changed. I think the Sinclair method follows a similar approach. Give alcohol addicted people naltrexone which blocks the rewards from ethanol but keeps the nasty side effects and then let them drink as they like.

It was never born; thus it can never die. Why is it infinite? It has no desires for itself; thus it is present for all beings.

The Master stays behind; that is why she is ahead. She is detached from all things;

that is why she is one with them. Because she has let go of herself, she is perfectly fulfilled.

A goal to end all goals. It is as easy as it sounds, do not even try to have no goal.

I do not work in this field, but have taken a class or two on biomedical engineering.

Some background: Neurons in your brain communicate with adjacent neurons by various chemical signals. But each neuron has an all-or-nothing threshold. At any given moment it's either activating a pulse called an "action-potential" or it's idle and waiting for stimulus from other neurons.

TMS applies very short, very strong magnetic pulses to brain tissue. The affected region is small but contains millions of neurons. By electromagnetic induction, the changing magnetic field creates just enough localized voltage for those neurons to start activating at random without any external stimulus.

Stray EMF is nowhere near strong enough to create a similar effect.

The TMS effect is not strong enough to cause physical damage, but having all those neurons firing at random does have various effects, some good, some bad.

I'm very sorry about your friend. Researchers are trying to learn if and how TMS can be used safely and effectively, but it is still experimental. If a doctor recommended it, they must have exhausted better-understood treatment options.